Last night, I went to a pub quiz. It was so bad that it was funny and it got me to thinking that we should compile the worst quiz ever using terrible questions that you've heard at pub quizzes. It's just for fun, so please don't mention the names of the setters/question masters.

I've been hosting for too long, and haven't been to too many truly horrible nights in a while. I'm sure I've asked some clunkers, but hopefully nothing as needlessly inflammatory as this one:

From Paul Paquet in Ottawa:

This was, without the doubt, the most horrible question I've ever heard, even though I'm normally pro-Palestinian: "Israel celebrated it's 60th anniversary as a country and sign of the apocalypse last week. Because Jews are never content with what they have, Israel has added on to the country over the years, gaining their own Lebensraum, if you will. They had to give the Sinai Peninsula back to Egypt in 1979, and the Gaza strip is in a limbo of control right now. What are the other two current Israel occupied territories?"

This thread has brought back memories of a music round on which we and one or two other teams played our jokers. Music was then played and we were required to name the artist(s).

Snatches from a few songs were played, there were many baffled looks and guesses being made and, eventually, every team scored nil points. It transpired that the songs had been taken from one of the free discs that used to be (and may still be) given away with newspapers. I have a number of them. The first (usually about) 8 songs are real songs by successful artists. The discs are then completed with songs that no one has ever heard of by people that no one has ever heard of, but are in the style of the first 8 or so.

The Answer given was George I and George III. It turned out after the quiz the quiz master meant 18th century but that would still bring up the question what ever happened to George II (and William III for that matter).